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with you, General! I'm not blind."
He tugged on his beard.
"Should your wife ever inquire, I will be able to assure her that you were astonishingly faithful during your trip to India, even when lovely young women were coming to your room every night. But I don't think Venandakatra will find that reassuring. Not after you've spent so much time and effort trying to convince him you were almost as debauched as he is."
Belisarius' face was stony. The muscles along his jaw were tight.
"Ha!" exclaimed Eon. "So! I am required to mount every female shoved into my room. I am required to act the part of a breeding bull. But the general whose plan this is—"
The dawazz slapped him atop his head. The slave tried h